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‘Wynken, Blinken, and Nod’: On the Diversity of Biden’s Administration
By Benay Blend Published on March 9, 1889, “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” is a children’s poem composed by American writer Eugene Field. The title suggests a child’s blinking eyes and nodding head, meant perhaps by […]
‘No Thanks, No Giving’ in the Time of the Coronavirus
By Benay Blend In November 2018 Nick Estes of The Red Nation—Albuquerque invited friends to a pot-luck and teach-in that was to be an alternative to the “genocidal” holiday of Thanksgiving. Modeled on the National […]
Post-Election 2020: ‘The Beat Goes On’
By Benay Blend In a popular song from the mid-60s, there is a reference to the changing times—grocery stores that become super marts, cars built to go “faster all the time.” Nevertheless, at the same […]
From Palestine to Turtle Island: When All Else Fails Oppressors Blame the Victim
By Benay Blend Reflecting on the 2020 election, Onyesonwu Chatoyer wrote: “One thing I’ve been reflecting on today is how much election discourse is just poor and working-class people” blaming each other “for not participating […]
From Palestine to Turtle Island: Whose Lives Really Matter?
By Benay Blend On the eve of the US elections, tensions are very high. Concerns range from right-wing violence at the polls to the fear of a contested election in which the conservative Supreme Court […]
On Anti-Fascism and the 2020 Election
By Benay Blend “It’s grotesque to blame third party voters for the unwillingness of Democrats to stand up to Trump,” Steven Salaita tweeted, “just another pathetic chapter in the long American tradition of punishing the […]
Prison Abolition: An International Struggle
By Benay Blend Winner at the Sundance Film Festival for Best Directing, Garrett Bradley’s “Time” focuses on an intimate love story to convey an indictment of the prison-industrial complex. Bradley’s film follows a Black couple […]
Gal Gadot, Stephen Miller and Richard Spencer: On the Strange Case of the Commonalities They Share
By Benay Blend “Whatever you think of her being cast as Cleopatra,” tweeted Steven Salaita, “never forget that Gal Gadot proudly served (and continues to support) a colonial army notorious for maiming and murdering civilians.” […]
Inside Joe Biden’s ‘House Divided’: Who Really Owns the House
By Benay Blend On October 6, presidential candidate Joe Biden delivered a call to heal a “divided country,” thereby hoping to transcend party lines and perhaps garner a few more moderate Republican votes. By speaking […]
From Turtle Island to Palestine: On the History of State-Sponsored Violence
By Benay Blend Several years ago, I went to hear a rabbi speak about her trip to “Israel” with Rabbis for Human Rights. During the course of her slide show, she made reference often to […]
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By Palestine Chronicle Staff Dear Friends and Readers, Over the years, The Palestine Chronicle has emerged as one of the most trusted, articulate and consistent voices on Palestine and Palestinian rights. Despite our limited […]
‘Whose Narratives?’: On the Suppression of Palestinian Speech
By Benay Blend “If you have any doubt that the panic over “cancel Culture,” writes Steven Salaita, “as presented by the corporate media, is in aggregate a reactionary phenomenon (with a distinctly Zionist subtext),” then […]
Justice for Some, Not for All: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Indigenous Rights
By Benay Blend “The feed is wild right now and the record – on police violence, criminal justice, racism, and Indigenous sovereignty – does not justify the adoration. At all,” wrote Onyesonwu Chatoyer, organizer for […]
Eugenics and Ethnic Cleansing: The Values that Unite the US and Israel
By Benay Blend “You’d have a hard time finding a point in history where the US government *wasn’t* running concentration camps and forcibly sterilizing people.” Onyesonwu Chatoyer, organizer for the All African People’s Revolution Party […]
From Turtle Island to Palestine the Apocalypse is Ongoing
By Benay Blend In The Future Home of the Living God (2017), Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe) writes of a dystopic future that might as easily be today. In Erdrich’s novel, Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted Ojibwe child […]
The Power of Memory to Reclaim What was Lost
By Benay Blend In the article “Invention, Memory, and Place,” the late Edward Said reflects on the question of collective memory: what is remembered, how, and in what form? Both Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless […]
From Occupied Palestine to Turtle Island: Tending the Fires of Resistance
By Benay Blend “California fires are like the ongoing attacks on Gaza,” writes Palestinian author Ibtisam Barakat. “So one is natural and the other unnatural…Both are overwhelming and make one stop to wonder how people […]
Democratic National Convention: Gaslighting, Islamophobia, and Other Forms of Chicanery
By Benay Blend This year’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) is indeed a “convention like no other,” as it is being billed by CNN. Instead of reaching out to the party’s progressive base, reports Ryan Bort, […]
Biden/Harris 2020: ‘Identity Politics’ and Its Ramifications for Occupied Palestine
By Benay Blend Exactly two years ago, in August 2018, Sen Kamala Harris blamed critics of “identity politics” for “weaponizing” the term in order to belittle the very issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation […]
Biden / Harris 2020: The Values That Unite the US and Israel
By Benay Blend Joe Biden declares that what links the United States and Israel goes beyond the exchange of weapons. It is instead the much more ephemeral notion of a “shared soul that unites our […]
The High Price of a Seat at the Table
By Benay Blend “Bill Clinton has a penchant for overstepping,” writes Barbara Ransby, “for going too far and for being too cocky, especially when it comes to Black people.” In particular, his presumption of “insider […]
Seeing the Tree But Not the Forest: Systemic Racism in American and Israeli Policing
By Benay Blend Since the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, his name has (or should have) become a household word. When Mawusi Ture, an activist with the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), […]
Liberation Through a Pen: Education in Occupied Palestine, Turtle Island and Cuba
By Benay Blend In a recent Facebook post, author Susan Abulhawa said that it’s hard not to believe that “with all their privilege and resources, cannot imagine a single alternative to educating their children except […]
On the Ongoing Occupation of America and Historic Palestine
By Benay Blend On July 20, Michelle Goldberg published an Op-ed for the New York Times titled “Trump’s Occupation of American Cities has Begun.” At one time, “the idea of unidentified agents in camouflage snatching […]
From Portland to Palestine to the Southern Cone: The Reappearance of the Disappeared
By Benay Blend “What was old has become new again,” wrote local activist Lee Einer in a Facebook post this morning. Einer is referring to Donald Trump’s use of federal law enforcement officers, dressed in […]
‘Love me, Love me, I’m a liberal’: From Peter Beinart to Santa Fe’s Liberal Mayor
By Benay Blend In a humorous rendition of the failure of reformist politics, the late Phil Ochs describes the lengths to which liberals will go to prove their political credentials. By crying for “Mr. Kennedy,” […]
‘Triumph of the Will’ Redux in Occupied Palestine and Turtle Island
By Benay Blend On Friday, July 3, 2020, Donald Trump used the occasion of Independence day to deliver what Annie Karnie called “a dark and divisive” speech before a crowded audience at He Sápa (the […]
From Cultural Commodification to Annexation in Occupied Palestine and Indigenous North America
By Benay Blend In October 2005, The Forward reported that Directors of Israel’s three most influential ministries met to decide how to enhance the country’s image abroad by moving the focus away from religion as […]
‘Set Them All Free’: Child Detention in American and Israeli Prisons
By Benay Blend Referring to the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Los Angeles on June 26, 2020, ordered the release of migrant children detained in the country’s three family detention centers. […]
Juneteenth, Trump’s Rally and the Nakba
By Benay Blend At first glance, Juneteenth and the Nakba do not have much in common. Juneteenth (June 19th) celebrates the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865 that freed remaining enslaved African Americans on […]